Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Fukushima Dake (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fukushima Dake (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from Japan. It is part of the Japan Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The highest massif (2494 m) in the Yamato Sanmyaku. Surveyed by JARE in 1960, and named in memory of Shin Fukushima, geophysicist of JARE, lost in a violent blizzard near Syowa Station in October 1960.
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